issey miyake lights up coral gables

japanese designer Issey Miyake is a technology and design genius, best known for his experimentation with pleated garments and his development of new ways to treat fabrics and fashion design. This is a guy who has experimented with articles made from a single piece of cloth, aptly called APOC, A Single Piece of Cloth, engineered a new way to pleat garments (Pleats Please), and designed a one-size-fits-all t-shirt. 

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You can find Miyake's latest project, a cerebral take on the home lamp, at Artemide in Coral Gables. In case you aren't yet hip to it, Coral Gables is secretly the best high-end home furniture neighborhood in Miami. Which is really surprising considering we have a whole area called "The Design District." But in homely Coral Gables, you'll find Luminaire, Design Within Reach and Artemide, just to start with. Ok, so maybe it's not the best, home shopping area, but it's the best high-end-modern-furniture neighborhood. 

"IN- EI" is Japanese for "shadow, shadiness and nuance." Miyake's IN-EI project is a kind of home decor iteration of the same themes he's experimented with for so long, the lamps are paper structures that can be folded flat and use 2 or 3D mathematics principles balancing between light and shade. 

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images via Artemide and Issey Miyake